Graphics, Figures & Tables ⇒ Resize PGF image (but not text)

[stinkinrich88]

Hello,

How can I resize a pgf image, but keep the text in the image the same size?

I can't use \resizebox because this also resizes the text.

I understand that I can use the following in my pgf file:

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\begin{tikzpicture}[scale=2]

However, that scales the image, rather than letting me resize it to a specific width. So this is also no good.

Thank you!

[johnjamessmith0]

Since no one has posted anything, I will present my woefully ugly and inadequate semi-solution (I had the same problem when doing a project some time ago) defining a bounding box a manually calculating the scale factor. The following produces a picture that is four inches wide.

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\newcommand{\cmsperinch}{2.54}
\begin{tikzpicture}[scale=\cmsperinch*4/3]

\path[use as bounding box, draw] (2,2) rectangle (5,7);
\draw (3,3) -- (4.5,6);

\end{tikzpicture}

Of course, this means you'll have to explicitly find the coordinate boundaries of the picture yourself. Perhaps someone cleverer can come up with a solution involving current bounding boxes and scopes and at-end-picture commands or something.